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Intelligence and intellectuals

The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

- Weil, Simone

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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.

Hellman, Lillian

Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

Erasmus, Desiderius

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.

Al-Nuri

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Allen, Woody

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Orwell, George

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.

Proverb, Jewish

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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

Lewis, Wyndham

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We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Einstein, Albert

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People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

Randi, James

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It's good to be clever, but not to show it.

Proverb, French

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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

Bogan, Louise

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People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

Anderson, Gillian

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Lowell, James Russell

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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Weil, Simone

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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

Russell, Bertrand

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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.

Huxley, Aldous

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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Bono, Edward De

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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

Short, Solomon

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Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Thomas, Dylan

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The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Reade, W. Winwood

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Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

Huxley, Aldous

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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Marx, Karl

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Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

Dworkin, Andrea

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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.

Pound, Ezra

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The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

Foucault, Michel

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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Sontag, Susan

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

Eliot, George

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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Hawking, Stephen

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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Chomsky, Noam

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You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are

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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The level of the development of a country is determined, in considerable part, by the level of development of its people's intelligence.

Machado, Luis Albert

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When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.

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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Bronowski, Jacob